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Should have been the same, with DCT, LSD and same fueling setup as the Huracan (Direct fuel injection and indirect fuel injection) maybe some electric motors in the front to get down on the CO2 and high MPG in the city lol :) Should be easy 10s with that setup!

Recently on head 2 head they pinned the c7 z06 vs the NISMO GTR who destroyed it on the track by a substantial margin, (1.4 seconds I believe) despite the Z06's higher specs and considering the GTR's heavier weight and dated hardware.... will be interesting to see how the CTS and ATS end up performing.

I think the real trolling will come when people in CTS-V's pull up next to M5's at stoplights. Cadillac has surpassed M with the CTS, and with the good start of the ATS, I'm thinking the story will be the same for the next generation of that segment. This assumes that BMW doesn't go all out on the next M cars.

I personally think it is hilarious. Companies often times take themselves too seriously. Cadillac is just having fun and hopefully this starts a little back and forth much like the audi/BMW billboard debacle.
-Rich

Cadillac is doing great things lately. They are rolling out high performance cars such as the ATS-V coupe and sedan which are aimed squarely at their German rivals. It is no secret that BMW M has been and is the benchmark in the class from a driver's car perspective.
When you are on top others want to take you down and Cadillac apparently is trying to get attention by trolling BMW using their European Twitter feed. Is BMW doing this to Cadillac? No. BMW knows they are the standard so they could care less about Cadillac.
Cadillac comes off looking desperate for attention from the German brands. They also are trying to put themselves in the conversation with M by trolling M. They need to remind people that the ATS-V is an M4 competitor by taking pictures with the M4. They are taking the time to go to M, not the other way around. This kind of thing can backfire (anyone remember how it backfired for Audi back in the day with their billboard calling out BMW?) and make a company look petty instead of professional.
Cadillac does not have the performance or luxury pedigree of the Germans... yet. They are doing good things and should focus on that. Trying to get the Germans' attention by screaming for it just makes them look like they are not ready to play with the big boys. People should know the ATS-V is the M4 competitor on their own. If you have to yell to get in the conversation, you were never in it to begin with.

That certainly was fast, wasn't it? After Audi revealed the new second generation R8 V10 we knew more variants would be on the way we just did not know Audi would already start revealing them. Meet the Audi R8 E-Tron which is a significant improvement over the first generation R8 E-Tron.
That R8 as you may remember was on again off again on again off again and so on and so forth. Audi seems to have figured things out the second time around and the R8 E-Tron looks pretty much production ready.
The car has two electric motors which provide 460 horsepower along with 678 lb-ft of torque. The range with the 92 KWh battery is 280 miles although that definitely depends on how frequently the full 460 horsepower is unleashed.
The car will no doubt be compared to the Tesla Model S although this is a sports car with a different emphasis. What should be noted though is the E-Tron can be charged in less than 2 hours and that it has a 155 miles per hour top speed.
More details to come such as pricing, weight, and availability but expect R8 E-Trons to be on public roads by the end of the year.

Those F-Series tunes sure spread out quickly didn't they? Everyone is trying to grab their piece of the pie and that is how this business works. Evotech of course is throwing their hat in the ring as well with some pretty impressive tune only numbers of 745 horsepower and 930 lb-ft of torque.
Yes, those figures are at the crank. Fortunately they provided a dynograph or this network would not be bothering with this article as it often does not for tuners that throw out big numbers without any actual support.
Uncorrected on a Dynojet the figures are 623 wheel horsepower and 777 lb-ft of torque at the wheels. That torque number is... well, it's crazy. It's much higher than anyone else and we certainly can not explain it. Other tuners are in the low 600 lb-ft of wheel torque range on a Dynojet.
What is Evotech doing differently? What other supporting mods does this car have? We do not know. We only know that they state they are using 95 octane fuel and their Stage 2 flash.
Their crank ratings may be a bit high as using 15% loss numbers (which is flawed anyway as it inflates output) puts the torque figure at 914 lb-ft and the horsepower at 732. Regardless, we are seeing some very big numbers out of the S63TU and it is just getting warmed up.